Word: jager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forces, fighting side by side with the Norwegians, may prove this latest outrage by Germany to have been as rash as it was wicked." But by this time, General von Falkenhorst had some 80,000 picked troops in Norway. Most of them were, like himself, Austrians - skilled mountain fighters (jager) at home on skis, practiced in the guerrilla type of warfare waged so effectively by the Finns in rough, forested country. At least one division was motorized, and Correspondent Stowe, who scored world beats reporting their landings along the Oslo Fjord, told of seeing field artillery...